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“The
Accomplice”
-Chronology
of Events-
THEORY:
The Bojangles man
was one accomplice of the real killers. “Mr. Bojangles”
was shot by the real killers as he attempted to flee after hearing the voices
of teenagers nearby. ‘Mr. Bojangles’ walked into the
restaurant wounded by a gunshot. The 10-mile diversion ditch made a direct path
from the location where the victims were found to the Bojangles
restaurant. After Marty King approached the man in the Bojangles
restaurant, “Mr. Bojangles” left and was never heard
from again. Three boys were murdered less than 3,500 feet away AND the 10 Mile
Bayou Diversion Ditch led directly from the ‘dumpsite’ to the Bojangles Restaurant.
Certain detectives DELIBERATELY covered up this crime. According to
Marty King he called the police around
FACT: Marty King was the manager of the Bojangles restaurant on May 5th, 1993. The following is Marty King’s testimony from the Echols/Baldwin trial “Well, it was about 9:30 that night, a lady and her daughter came in to order supper, I guess it was for them. We took her order and the lady said that she needed to take her daughter to the restroom so I told her it was right around the corner. (At the Misskelley trial, Marty King testifies that the lady and her daughter ordered some food “THIRTY MINUTES BEFORE CLOSING” which reinforces the time of 9:30 pm.) The lady and her daughter immediately came back around, and I asked her if there was a problem. She said, ‘Yes sir, there was a gentleman in the women’s restroom.’ I said, ‘Ok, I’ll go check it out.’ And at that time, I found a black gentleman sitting on the commode with his head in his lap. He was probably about 5’8” or 5’9” somewhere in that area. About 165 lbs, real thin man. He had his head in his lap and there was blood dripping off of his forearm. And there was blood on the wall as far as where he had leaned up against the wall, maybe staggered in, but he had mud on his feet, and he seemed disarrayed when I talked to him. He raised up and kind of slurred that he was alright. I gave him a few more minutes to come out, and he never did so I went back to check on him again and I called the police then... (Approximately 9:40 pm) The gentleman had wasted a whole roll of toilet tissue by soaking up blood... it was saturated all the way down to the cardboard roll. I just threw it in the garbage at that time. There was a pair of sunglasses that apparently tried to flush down the commode. I fished ‘em out and throwed those in the garbage also. There was quite a bit of mud on the floor. We dug a water hose around and washed it out. Normally we would have swept and mopped, but you know, there was a large amount of mud on his feet, and that was on the floor so we just washed it down the drain. There was some blood above the commode and on the wall. Maybe it looked like where he had leaned up against the wall cause it looked to be the impression of a forearm. There was some blood on the floor, commode, doorknob and in the hallway where he had left also. An off duty officer by the name of Billy Covington came in the next morning, a friend of mine, and I was telling him of the event that happened the night before and it kind of struck him in a strange way. He said, “Don’t clean that blood off the door handles or the wall or anything, and I will get back with you in a little while. Later that afternoon DETECTIVES BRYN RIDGE AND MIKE ALLEN CAME OUT AND TOOK A REPORT... and then THEY TOOK BLOOD SCRAPINGS OFF THE WALL IN THE WOMEN’S RESTROOM, OFF THE MEN’S DOOR IN THE HALLWAY AND OFF THE WALL IN THE HALLWAY. I told them about the sunglasses and we fished them out and they took ‘em with them. I told them about the roll of toilet paper and they said ‘we don’t need that, JUST DISCARD IT.’
(Download Quicktime Video Clip with partial testimony regarding Mr. Bojangles from Paradise Lost, Part 1) (Right Click and “Save As”)
The above image is taken from Paradise Lost, Part 1.
FACT: During the Echols trial, Detective Bryn Ridge is asked the following question by Val Price, “Detective Ridge, what is the date that you sent the blood scrapings off to the crime lab to be analyzed?” Ridge answers, “They were never sent.” Price asks “They were never sent?” Ridge responds, “That’s correct.” Price asks, “Where are the blood samples at this time?” Ridge answers, “I don’t know sir, they’re lost.” Price asks, “They’re lost?” Ridge answers, “Yes sir, that’s my mistake. I lost a piece of evidence.” Detectives Bryn Ridge LOST THE BLOOD SCRAPINGS AND SUNGLASSES HE COLLECTED WITH DETECTIVE MIKE ALLEN AT THE BOJANGLES RESTAURANT.
(Download Quicktime Video Clip of the above statements from Paradise Lost, Part 1) (Right Click and “Save As”)
FACT: John Mark Byers claims to have seen ‘a little skinny black guy’ on the night of the murders coming out of the Robin Hood Woods. These are the people that JMB claims to have said ‘if they come up here, we’ll hold on to ‘em for you.’ These statements come from John Mark Byers’ interview with the police on May 19th, 1993.
(Link to the actual police transcript)
FACT: Detectives James Sudbury and Bryn Ridge NEVER press John Mark Byers regarding the ‘little skinny black guy’ he mentions being in the area where the bodies were found even though BRYN RIDGE HIMSELF PERSONALLY KNEW ABOUT THE BOJANGLES MAN. This ‘little skinny black guy’ matches the description of the Bojangles man. Detective Bryn Ridge himself took the blood scrapings from the Bojangles restaurant and subsequently “lost” the evidence.
FACT:
MARTY KING’S TESTIMONY NOR THE POLICE FIELD REPORT filed by Bryn Ridge and Mike
Allen MATCH THE POLICE LOG, which states that Marty King’s call
came in at
FACT: Crime lab analyst Lisa Sakevicious reported finding a fragment of “negroid hair” on the sheet that was wrapped around Christopher Murray’s body. (also known as Christopher Byers)Source: Atria Books: Mara Leveritt, Devil’s Knot, p.28, 2002..
FACTS:
Detective Bryn Ridge “lost” the blood scrapings and the sunglasses he took from
the Bojangles Restaurant. Christopher Murray (also known as Christopher
Byers) had the community looking in their direction. Neighbors were wondering
why the police were friends with an unemployed jeweler whose son was out of
control. Detective James Sudbury, who questioned Byers during his first
interview was also in the “drug task force.”
Neighbors also wondered why certain members from the “drug task force”
and the West Memphis Police Department would visit Byers at his home for
barbecues during the weekends. Detective James Sudbury, along with two other
officers, would later be fired in 2001 for falsifying evidence and missing
drugs from evidence lockers. (More on this in the WMPD page)
FACT: On
"That led me to believe he was
bleeding himself," King said. But King said he wasn't sure if the blood
may have been from another person or not. (Link
to the article by Mark Perrusquia)
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